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This programme asks where and how were the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides performed? What did theatre mean to the Greeks? Chris Emlyn-Jones looks at archaeological evidence on the grou...nd - in Athens, Epidaurus and Thorikos - and the evidence of pained vases from museums around the world, to reconstruct a sense of the importance of Greek drama in the 5th century.
This programme asks where and how were the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides performed? What did theatre mean to the Greeks? Chris Emlyn-Jones looks at archaeological evidence on the grou...nd - in Athens, Epidaurus and Thorikos - and the evidence of pained vases from museums around the world, to reconstruct a sense of the importance of Greek drama in the 5th century.
| Module code and title: | A294, Fifth-century Athens: democracy and city state |
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| Item code: | A294; 03 |
| First transmission date: | 11-04-1989 |
| Published: | 1989 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:27 |
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| Producer: | Tony Coe |
| Contributor: | C. J. Emlyn-Jones |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Aeschylus; Archaeology; Athens; Drama; Euripides; Greeks; Sophocles; Theatre |
| Master spool number: | HOU6173 |
| Production number: | FOUA278B |
| Videofinder number: | 2899 |
| Available to public: | no |
